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  • 09-01-2015 6:17pm
    #1
    FURET
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭


    I stumbled onto this guy's YouTube channel the other day and I find him highly entertaining and, generally, on the ball. He calls himself an asshole consultant:



    Enjoy!


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  • #2
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    I'm reading his book "enjoy the decline" at the minute,he has some very interesting ideas and observations.


  • #3
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    And his angle is nigh on entirely from an American perspective. That for me is the major problem with so much of this kinda thing on the interwebs, it's rooted and solidly so in one culture. A culture with lesser social support compared to Ireland(and the EU), big personal debt, especially in education and health, never mind anything else. EG the biggest reason for personal bankruptcy in the US of A is for medical bills. Something that for the vast majority of Irish men and women isn't even on the radar. As one of the many Breaking Bad memes go

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    This engenders, or tends to engender a very different gender* dynamic in its people, so I would be very careful in applying such insights or solutions outside of that culture.






    *yep I overused the word gender. I'm running outa alternatives. It's late, I'm old and I've had three glasses of vino.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #4
    FURET
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭FURET


    Wibbs wrote: »
    And his angle is nigh on entirely from an American perspective. That for me is the major problem with so much of this kinda thing on the interwebs, it's rooted and solidly so in one culture. A culture with lesser social support compared to Ireland(and the EU), big personal debt, especially in education and health, never mind anything else. EG the biggest reason for personal bankruptcy in the US of A is for medical bills. Something that for the vast majority of Irish men and women isn't even on the radar. As one of the many Breaking Bad memes go

    enhanced-buzz-wide-5417-1378832798-28.jpg

    This engenders, or tends to engender a very different gender* dynamic in its people, so I would be very careful in applying such insights or solutions outside of that culture.






    *yep I overused the word gender. I'm running outa alternatives. It's late, I'm old and I've had three glasses of vino.

    True he has a very American perspective, but if you ignore the libertarian posts and refocus the emphasis on student debt to debt in general, he speaks a lot of truth that applies to any western male. His videos on "death of the nightclub", worthless degrees, and career advice are excellent.


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